on May 8, 2013 |
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Topics: Cardiovascular, Service Lines, Business Development, Strategy, Technology Assessment, Planning
Megan Tooley, Cardiovascular Roundtable
The decision to pursue transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) should not be taken lightly—we’ve been helping walk members through the considerations in our recent publication Blueprint for Valve Centers, executive summary webconference, and recent coverage in Cardiovascular Rounds.
But for some progressive institutions, TAVR is the right choice both to fill a clinical need in the community, as well as grow the CV program. So once you’ve made that decision, where do you go from there?
For a quick primer on the top investments to consider when starting a program, we turned to CV leaders at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital, a 384-bed hospital in Denver, Colorado, who successfully launched a TAVR program last fall.
Read on for three key pieces of advice Saint Joseph Hospital has for institutions looking to launch their own TAVR program.
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You've decided to launch a TAVR program...now what?
on March 7, 2013 |
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Topics: Regionalization and Networks, Strategy, Organizational Models, Workforce, Cardiovascular, Service Lines
Jeffrey Rakover, Cardiovascular Roundtable
Questions about CV organizational structures are among the most common asked by members. CV leaders wonder about governance structures at peer institutions and which departments typically report up through the CV service line administrator while also querying how best to organize services along a number of specific parameters:
- How best to structure leadership while integrating clinicians
- How to develop organizational structures for multidisciplinary, disease-centered care
- How to create a governance structure across multiple sites of service or campuses within a system
The Roundtable has developed numerous resources touching on these and related questions.
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CV organizational structures: Roundtable resources
on February 13, 2013 |
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Topics: Cardiovascular, Service Lines, Imaging, Service Line Growth, Volume Growth, Strategy, Referral Management, Physician Issues, Quality, Performance Improvement, Physician Marketing, Marketing
Megan Tooley, Cardiovascular Roundtable
Recently, members have been asking us for strategies to strengthen their relationships with referring physicians, particularly for CV diagnostic testing. In light of declining volumes for CV services, it’s crucial to make sure you are capturing referrals for these front-end services.
We offer many best practices for enhancing CV market capture in our ongoing national meeting presentation "CV Imaging as the Nexus of Growth" and our study CV Marketing Strategy. But today I want to highlight another organization that is strategically marketing a new service that ensures CV imaging report quality to strengthen high-priority referral relationships.
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Here's one idea for securing CV imaging referrals
